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over the top preaching

posted 10 years ago by nrangerseven
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I have never noticed any religious nonsense in CHiPs before. Tonight I'm watching the "Repo Man" episode and was truly surprised by what I saw.

Jon gives a kid a compliment on being a man.
Kid replies, "Well, I pray to god a lot."
Jon says, "Attaboy."
Wtf

Then the next scene some guy is talking about a higher power. Seriously?? I would not have thought this would be a show to play these games. Not cool.

Then they have the crotchety Watchmaker character who is obviously supposed to be Jewish and is being mean to Jon, the Christian hero. Pretty sickening.

I realize the show is old, but still. It is wrong to push religion on others and assume everyone who watches the show is Christian. It is a slap in a face to anyone who is non-Christian, especially as this was filmed in the US where citizens are granted freedom of religion. Freedom of religion does NOT mean freedom of Christianity and berate everyone else who doesn't agree with you.

Being a Christian does not make anyone a better person and does not give anyone a free pass on morals. If you can't determine right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion. Be good to everyone no matter what their age, sex, race, religion or sexual orientation.

The people you idolize wouldn't like you.

[–] jrregan 9 years ago

nrangersevern, you're applying today's overzealous persecution and prosecution of Christianity to an era many decades ago. This too shall pass and the overreach will be in itself be tempered. It is person/group specific and they won't remain long. After all, a lot of what is happening now is the government exercising it's power over the people to keep control and dominance.

Chips was a staple when I grew up and I don't recall anything of the sort of religion at all. For you to have brought this up you must be overly sensitive to religion. Not intolerant, I don't know you well enough to say that, but you presented NO other examples just that one.

I also get a bit of humor from your statement that the show wasn't targeted at the Christian. It was targeted, as all tv/radio shows are, at a target audience that just happened to be the middle class white-bread occasional church going tv watching crowd who would likely buy the products the target advertisers were selling. That's the ONLY audience it was targeted towards. Anything else you infer is nonsense and uneducated in the broadcast media operations sense. I personally think they could care less about any of their audience except what can they show them that will be them to come back and watch the next episode; well season, as there wasn't really episodic tv but seasonal tv back then.

LOL, if Muslims were a purchasing powerblock back then, you would have seen and Allah ever now and then. I guarantee it.

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[–] darkavenger77 9 years ago

If you watch the real classics, you would hear God's name often. You would see people going to church. You would see the pledge of allegiance in school. You would hear and see morality. That's why I watch the classics.

Good post. I wrote a review of a Highway Patrol episode where people had raised the modern equivalent of like $80K for charity by going door-to-door and called the review An America that no longer exists.

I tend to watch a lot of TCM as well as ME TV lately.

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